Dead Estate
I think it speaks to the strength of this game that I got the true ending with a broken run before I unlocked all the characters and I’m taking a break to write this review before going back in again.
Dead Estate is a fun little isometric roguelike akin to an Enter the Gungeon or diamond shaped Isaac. You go in, fight enemies, pick up weapons and items, die to bosses, unlock new stuff, rinse and repeat. I don’t really need to tell you the basics of this kind of game. There are multiple playable characters with their own default weapons, stats and strengths/weaknesses. I will give it to them, once you start heading away from the starting characters they do come up with some pretty unique gimmicks. Gotta say, the one involving money is a personal favorite.
– Real player with 39.0 hrs in game
Read More: Best Isometric Action Roguelike Games.
As someone who really didn’t care for the genres gold standards “Binding of Isaac” and “Gungeon” i just thought that maybe this style wasn’t for me. Then i saw this game and something clicked as i started to play. It was actually fun, not just in the gameplay sense but in how it handles it’s own presentation. Everything is vibrant and colorful being overall very pleasing to look at, the characters and stages all have a level of charm and personal touches that make them stand apart, and the music is fairly simple but charmingly retro and fits very well with the tone of the game. Add to all that a wholesome and strange story that you will continue to discover through multiple runs and you have the recipe for one of the best Twin-Stick Rougelikes in the genre. The game is worth every penny and with the promise of more content to come I honestly cannot recommend this game enough.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
Cycled
Just beat the first (and second?) boss and while this feels like really early to judge the game, Cycled has a lot of charm and I want to see how it develops.
The game, at it’s core, relies on changing the enviroment, enemies and player character every few seconds. This means you’re always in a rush to do what you need in time - sometimes just kiting certain enemies that will soon transform into others who might be more convient to deal with. It’s fun to pull off some combos with both character’s you’re controlling such as by attacking and then summoning your other character right at the end of a wave, then quickly attacking again and summoning the previous character for a final hit.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
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TD Worlds
TD Worlds is a dynamic, highly strategical game that challenges your skill. Build an impenetrable defense and get ready to plunge into a new, unknown world to uncover its secrets.
In this bizarre universe, each attempt will be unique in its own way, which provides many hours of fun to play.
Clear three completely different worlds from darkness, spread your influence everywhere.
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unique conditions in each game;
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losing is an important part of game progress. Each defeat reveals something new for you;
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dynamic storytelling: the more you play, the more you learn about the world;
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get random rewards after each level;
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tired of playing? Feel free to leave the game, next time you will continue where you left;
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experiment with different tactics;
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twitch integration - play with your viewers.
Read More: Best Isometric Roguelite Games.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms is a skill-driven ARPG game inspired by such classics as Baldur’s Gate and Pillars of Eternity. Set in a rich fantasy world, resembling the darkest period of the Middle Ages, the game offers fast-paced action with a deep narrative.
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Master a unique, hardcore combat system
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Customize your character by choosing different Ways of Power, classes and skills
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Explore, craft, gain reputation and unlock new quests
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Choose one of 4 playable races (Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs), 40+ houses and clans to fight for, each with their own history. Start your own legacy in The Four Kingdoms after the first playthrough
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12 memorable companions with their own backstories, ready to join or fight you during your journey
Alaloth is a dark god who turned on his pantheon and came to the mortal realms. There he lies imprisoned in the Valley of Storms, where the four great kingdoms of humans, orcs, elves, and dwarves intersect. From the Valley’s heart, he spreads evil throughout the kingdoms, determined to extinguish any light of hope for all who call this world home.
Storms, monsters, plagues, strife, and great dragons beset the land – it will require strength and courage to defeat Alaloth in his prison.
The world of Alaloth is comprised of four vast territories. To the northwest lies The Goldwood Forest and The Republic of Larastir with elves keeping the secrets of the gods safe. To the northeast are the mountains named The Fangs of Kemot, home to dwarves that inhabit this great rocky territory: Karak-Hohn. To the southwest, you will discover the wastelands, the Desolation of Baga, where orcs rule. In the southeast humans brought civilization to an age of gold with a huge bay area of cities, merchants, and prosperous growth: The Blessed Kingdom of Edherest.
A hardcore combat system is combined with a brand new isometric gameplay, featuring spectacular moves in challenging fights with various enemies. You have to carefully plan the next move. One reckless action and you die.
Customize your warrior by choosing from among three different Ways of Power - Arms, Gods, Nature - each one with three different professions to choose from. Players can meet twelve different NPCs that could join them during the quest, depending on the alignment of the character.
iso-Sphere
Tags: Casual - Marble Routing
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Tabletported quality. Perhaps take a look at Momentum instead for a better execution of the same concept.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/462130/Momentum/
Review: The isometric perspective does not play very well with the controls as you will plunge your ball to its death by pressing the wrong arrow very often. Otherwise the sound design is not too grating and the physics for the ball mostly makes sense. With a lot of patience or a lot of skill it is possible to enjoy this title.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
A little nice and beautiful game with challenging levels
After playing sometime i think that this game it kinds of remind me of another game that i was playing and raging on it much for those who was playing older flash games it’s called Gyroball, really made me feels the childhood, anyways i unlocked the world 2, and couldn’t finish the game it was too hard for me, it’s so challenging and pretty addictive the more you play the more you will get mad and gives you more motivation to finish the hardest levels by just trying more and more, with this beautiful and calm soundtrack in it it gives me chills when i rage lol, i think that’s everything for the introduction
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Drafting Tales
I now have enough time into this game and two completions so I feel like I can make a good judgment of this game.
First off this is decently entertaining. It’s the sort of game you play while binge-watching shows. It’s not the sort of game you sit down to play every night for months on end. They’re are no fancy graphics or animations when you complete a task its just click click click on a mostly never changing screen. There is enough clicking that you feel like you’re doing something and enough progression that you feel like you’re not wasting your time but its not going to hold your entire attention. Think of a mobile game that you play while sitting in a boring meeting at work. This is that game. It’s good and enjoyable you just have to go into it knowing what kind of game you’ll be playing. I’m particularly fond of trying to do a ‘speed run’.
– Real player with 48.7 hrs in game
In its current state: cannot recommend.
This game is basically Game Dev Tycoon but where you play an aspiring writer instead of a game developer. You can write articles, short stories, non-fiction and novels. Genres and themes are unlocked through an XP requirement that becomes far more of a chore because you can only earn considerable amounts of XP from large and unprofitable projects like non-fiction and novels.
Main reason I cannot recommend Drafting Tales is because the game is about as fair and balanced as Fox News. With each year that goes by, inflation goes up considerably (price for vacations and rent) but your earnings from a publisher don’t, meaning that you’ll struggle to even afford rent before long. Another problem is that large projects as previously mentioned, are unprofitable. If it takes 8 times the time to write a book compared to an article or short story, and also a significant investment into a vacation because writing that book will drain your stamina, the book had better make several times more in revenue than a short story would. Unfortunately it doesn’t. At most it makes about twice as much as a medium length journalistic piece.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
Dandy Ace
Hey everyone, if you enjoy a good fun ARPG with roguelite elements, funny dialogue, and a wonderful art style you need to check out Dandy Ace. Let’s go into what you have to look forward to:
Dandy Ace is an 2.5D Action RPG game where you take the role of Dandy Ace, the world’s greatest magician, who is trapped in a cursed mirror world by his unbeknownst greatest rival, Lele the Green Eyed Illusionist. Sent to this world with only your assistantts Jenny Jenny and Jolly Jolly, you use your deck of powerful card tricks and trinkets to make your way through this mirror world and find a way to escape. Along the way you battle various minions monsters and even find help from Nnif a bunny who is out to turn a profit. Will Ace be able to escape this mirror world?
– Real player with 57.0 hrs in game
TL:DR No regrets, just not good game. Kinda pretty tho. Lost my interest after the first couple hours. Review made on Patch 1.2.0.0.24
Ok, so It took me 32.4 hours to beat this game in nightmare mode, I’m Brazilian so giving up is kinda hard. I do not consider myself to be a good isometric Rogue-like player, despite really liking the genre, but I’m going to put my review here.
First of all I bought it because I really appreciate new Brazilian games and I will buy them whenever I think they are cool, É nois mlk S2.
– Real player with 32.4 hrs in game
Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Of all single player action RPGs to date, Diablo being the benchmark, only dungeon siege 1 and 2 felt it could surpass its perfection at every angle of what it means to be an action role playing game. Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms hits that sweet spot providing an indepth original story arc, simple yet complex evolving skill structure, efficiency over time for fun actions per second, extreme replayability, new even better party system management, impressively fitting musical score and near infinite ways to play this glorious hack and slash. Let me tell you why (and also compare it to Diablo):
– Real player with 45.9 hrs in game
If you are looking for another Diablo game, this is not it.
Cons:
EDIT: No more crashes happened after that first one so I guess this is a non-issue
“It still has some technical issues but I only experienced 1 crash so far and you can say I abused the game quite a lot. Most games can’t take the amount of Alt+Tab that I throw at them but this one did. :)”
EDIT: this getting stuck has not happened in a long time.
“The most annoyng technical issue I ran into is related to collision when the character gets stuck on a level difference, and that usually happens when there are 7 enemies around him.”
– Real player with 30.2 hrs in game
City Game Studio: a tycoon about game dev
City Game Studio
I joined the open beta for City Game Studio a little while ago. Ever since I have seen it grow substantially. The game has been improved so much in a short amount of time and I can only see it getting better and better from here on out. The developer is very active and takes all the feedback and criticism he gets very seriously. Many of my own suggestions have already made it into the game and whenever an issue arises he is quick to fix it.
The game takes place in a city where you can rent, buy and even build your own studios and exhibitor centers. When your company is doing good you obviously want to expand and get even larger teams working on even bigger titles. The result of that can be very satisfying.
– Real player with 198.3 hrs in game
Overview
First off, on advice from this author’s attorney Frankie “Fine Print” Lymann, copycat games are not a crime. (See Data East USA v. Epyx for proof that copycats do not constitute copyright infringement.) Remember Game Dev Tycoon? Take the awesomeness of the aforementioned game, add interior decorating, an outside world where buildings can be rented, bought, and even constructed, and then add in some nice new ideas (along with a bad idea) and you have City Game Studio. In case the reader doesn’t know, the game is a management sim in which the player starts a game company starting in the year of the player’s choosing, and goes from rags to riches through developing and publishing video games.
– Real player with 43.6 hrs in game
EURGAVA™: Fight for Haaria
entertaining however… youll find that the double click on monsters sometimes doesnt work which becomes a huge issue when fight bigger stronger monsters. Also there is very little explanation as to what items do and when you should use them which makes it a bit frustrating trying to remember from looking at the log at the beginning which items to keep while roaming.
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
So now that have spent sometime with this game would like to share a quick view of what i think. I really like games that at least at some point try to be a little, unique. This game does that. It has that “I just want to do a couple more things then im done” feel as well. Thats also a plus. Althoough i recieved this key for free (thanks), Im going to be buying a gift copy for my nephew to so some support. Great Game if it sounds like something you’d be into.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game